Thursday, July 24, 2014

FSF Challenge - Fearless

What it’s all about: Five Sentence Fiction is about packing a powerful punch in a tiny fist. Each week Lillie posts one word for inspiration, then anyone wishing to participate will write a five sentence story based on the prompt word.

This may be he shortest FSF Challenge post I've ever done - and perhaps one of the scariest.

"What happened, Colonel? They're unarmed nurses, not infantry. They were supposed to move close to the enemy lines—not over." "They didn't, sir. While tending to the wounded, the lines moved behind them."

I'll have to wait for another FSF prompt to see if I can add to the story. Until then, it's up to your imagination! Thanks for dropping by to read. Now I have to find time to read everyone else's - I do apologize for not getting to them all. Haven't had a lot of free time lately.

War is a terrible trickster, isn't she? Lines get blurred, trampled and forgotten... and when bullets know nothing about billets. Now I'm wondering if this ladies armed themselves, and fought for the right to keep others from dying.

I can just imagine the moment when one of the nurses commented on what was happening around them. The senior nurse would have said something about how "these wounded men don't care what line they're behind", and they all would have carried on.You wrote only five sentences, but they were very evocative sentences. Nicely done!